15 MARCH 1946, page 13

Friends' Appeal : Books For Germany

SIR,—Quaker relief workers in Germany remind us constantly of the book and pamphlet famine in that country and of the hunger of proved democratic Germans for good literature in......

Natives In Africa And Cyprus

SIR,—My friendship with The Spectator dates back forty-six years. At Stonyhurst College we boys in the sixth form (called "Rhetoric ") had to read its leading articles to the......

Ballet : English And Russian

SIR,—To have watched a series of ballet performances in Moscow as Miss Morley has done is not sufficient to make a competent critic on the subject. Whether Mr. Redfern has been......

" The Brick Wall "

SIR,—In the course of many thousands of miles of travel in West Africa during 1 944-5 I was frequently an imposed guest of many of those about whom Mr Maurice Gordon writes in......

Timber Supplies And The Craftsman

SIR,—May I, after a quarter of a century spent in designing works requiring the highest degree of good craftsmanship, endorse your corre- spondent's plea for the small......

The School And The Village

SIR,—I was glad to find in Mr. Edwards's article some corroboration of our own local experience. He said: " When the London children arrived during the evacuation period their......